In Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game," this scene
is when the villain gets caught monologuing, pridefully telling his enemy all of his
evil secrets and schemes.
General Zaroff tells Rainsford
how "Shiptrap Island" gets its name. Whereas sailor lore explained it as a mystery
(like the Bermuda triangle), Zaroff explains the method of how he wrecks ships to get
his stock of sailors on his island to hunt.
Zaroff uses the
light from his island to lure the ships into a narrow and shallow channel, and so the
ships sink from the jagged rocks beneath. The sailors swim to shore, and Ivan is
waiting there to capture them. Then, Zaroff hunts and kills them, one by
one.
He finishes the quote off with a little Zaroff zinger,
an analogy: the rocks can crush the hull of a ship the same way he can crush a nut.
Evil laughter to follow...
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